Barn Bones II is a photograph by Jani Freimann which was uploaded on May 13th, 2011.
Title
Barn Bones II
Artist
Jani Freimann
Medium
Photograph
Description
Eerily Beautiful And Abandoned
This barn is right next the road. Many of the old barns around me are next to the road. It made it easy to pick up or receive hay and for those farms that shipped out product like vegetables. This particular barn had a trap door in the floor. Under the floor was the ground and enough standing room for livestock. Something like a sheltered space for livestock to eat hay. Around here it rains a lot. Perhaps it was to give the livestock a dry space to eat.
I had driven by this barn many times, but this day the light streaming through the boards caught my artistic eye. I pulled over and walked towards the opening with my camera held tightly to my body. It was extremely windy and cold. The wind whipped my hair around so much that I wished I had put it up in a pony tail. Once inside the barn, it struck me how eerily quite and warm it was. The light coming through the barn walls made neat abstract shapes, but the wind didn't come through. It seemed as though this abandoned and retired old barn was desperately hanging onto the memories of its former job.
The roof was made of metal and some of it was loose; flapping in the wind making a banging sound. After deciding that the barn was not at all as frail as it appeared and wasn't going to fall on my head, I set out to capture the abstract shapes that this boney barn was showing off. All the while the wind screaming around its corners and lifting the loosened, metal roof pieces and banging them down again and again; as if attempting to blow down it down, but this skinny old barn held steadfast in its place. This old barn has good, sturdy bones.
I wish I had a recording of the sounds to go with the pictures because they were as much a part of the story as the rays of light.
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May 13th, 2011
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